IF ONLY...:

Stopping Samuel Alito (Geov Parrish, 11/16/05, Seattle Weekly)

Two months ago, I wrote of the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts: "If the Dems cry wolf over Roberts, and Americans see during his hearings a sympathetic guy, there will be that much less credibility available when Bush nominates someone really bad to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose seat Roberts originally was to fill." With the nomination of Samuel Alito, that day has come.

Roberts and Harriet Miers were stealth nominations who lacked paper trails of, and personal candor about, judicial philosophy, which obscured these nominees' radically conservative judicial agendas. (Miers, of course, also was staggeringly lacking in relevant experience.) There is no such coyness in Samuel Alito. We know exactly what we're getting here: a judge who will act to roll back a century's worth of gains in individual rights and checks on corporate and government power.

Think he's going to appear any less sympathetic?

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 16, 2005 4:08 PM